Digital Collections
These searchable collections are freely provided by the sponsoring organization.
Africa Research Central
Gateway to the archives, libraries, and museums with important collections of African
primary sources. A searchable database allows you to locate primary source repositories in Africa. The information
available for each repository varies, but may include, in addition to contact information, access and holdings
information, full-text articles, brochures, or photographs. From Africa Research Central.
African-American Women
An online archival collection from Duke University’s Special Collections Library.
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Digital collection of 52 published works by 19th Century black women writers. Keyword searchable. From the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
American Memory
Historical Collections for the National Digital Library - American Memory is a gateway to primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. From the Library of Congress.
American Women's History: A Research Guide
Provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources.
The Avalon Project
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Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy. Primary documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. Covers the documentary history of the United States - Congressional resolutions, Federalist papers, and Presidential Inaugural addresses. Ancient, medieval & modern documents from around the world are included. Full-text. Pre-18th Century to current.
From the Yale University Law School.
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1973.
Documents from the Women’s Liberation Movement
An online archival collection from Duke University’s Special Collections Library.
Government Document Brochures and Pamphlets
This digital collection contains selected general interest publications produced by the
U.S. Federal Government and received by the University at Buffalo Libraries through the Federal
Depository Library Program. They are arranged by general subject area. From the University at Buffalo.
Internet Classics Archive
441 works from 59 authors. Browse by title or search by keyword. From the MIT Media Lab.
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
from Duke University.
Selected Papers of Great American Physicists
From the Center for the History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics.
US Historical Documents
Digitized images of documents from the Pre-Colonial Era through the Present. From the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000
Consists of projects which contain short introductions and an introduction to each document contained in the project. Some of the documents are available in print, but can be found nowhere else.
Women Working, 1870-1930
This site provides access to primary documents from the Harvard’s library and museum collections.
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Last Modified 8 July 2008
